Re: Too much free time...

[Daniel J Sebald]

Shai Ayal wrote:
> you can try the keyboard command instead of pause (quite to get out of
> it) to avoid the loop

Eh, I guess tic/toc tells the story as well as anything.  E.g.,

tic(); image();
toc();

with toc() placed at various places in __go_draw_axes__.  There doesn't seem to 
be any one item that requires a lot of time.  Everything seems fairly distributed:

octave:3>   tic(); image;
Elapsed time is 0.774849 seconds.
Elapsed time is 0.965889 seconds.
Elapsed time is 1.032372 seconds.
Elapsed time is 1.038002 seconds.
Elapsed time is 1.045639 seconds.
Elapsed time is 1.052872 seconds.
Elapsed time is 1.059219 seconds.
Elapsed time is 1.065353 seconds.
Elapsed time is 1.071564 seconds.
Elapsed time is 1.135002 seconds.
Elapsed time is 1.351135 seconds.
Elapsed time is 1.567245 seconds.
Elapsed time is 1.571945 seconds.
octave:4> toc()
Elapsed time is 1.643593 seconds.

I guess 1.6 seconds isn't that long anymore; just seems that way.

Dan